How to create our own taglib

Question

hi,
i want to create my own simple JSTL.....
what i am doing is i hv created my own tld file say 'com-myTag.tld' in web-inf folder .
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE taglib PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag Library 1.1//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-jsptaglibrary_1_1.dtd">
<taglib>
<tlibversion>1.0</tlibversion>
<jspversion>1.1</jspversion>
<shortname>com</shortname>
<uri>WEB-INF/com-myTag.tld</uri>
<tag>
<name>xhtml</name>
<tagclass>com.myTag.Display</tagclass>
<bodycontent>empty</bodycontent>
</tag>
</taglib>And java class file say 'Display' in com.mytag package........
public class Display extends TagSupport
     public int doStartTag() throws JspException
          try
               pageContext.getOut().print("This is my first Tag Lib");
          catch(Exception e)
               System.out.println(" exception occur inside Display " + e.getMessage());
          return SKIP_BODY;
     public int doEndTag() throws JspException
          return EVAL_PAGE;
}But when i use this tag lib in my JSP it even not complied........
its giving compilation error ...............
JSPTranslate runtime: error classDefNotFound .......
can anybody help me
thanxs

Answer 1

Probably means you didn't add the jar containing TagSupport.class to you class path. This should be shipped with your application server / servlet container. In tomcat 5, the file is jsp-api.jar and can be found in common/lib
Also you may prefer to extend SimpleTagSupport. It's a bit more friendly.